Legal Advocacy & Impact Litigation

This Superior Court lawsuit contends that the sub-standard alternative education offered to expelled children, who are disproportionately students of color, violates equal protection guarantees of both the state and U.S. Constitutions.

This agreement addresses the District's failure to identify, evaluate and provide special education services and supports to African American students with disabilities, and the unnecessary exclusion of African American students through excessive discipline.

Filed on behalf of a youth in extended foster care who experienced more than two weeks of homelessness because the agency failed to provide her with a place to live.

Alleges group home staff denied foster youth access to reproductive health care services, forced youth to waive their right to confidential medical care, confiscated foster youths’ contraceptives, and forced foster youth to allow staff into youths' exam rooms during gynecological appointments.

The suit alleges flagrant districtwide disability and race discrimination against students with disabilities, especially Black students

In Washington state, Medicaid-eligible children with serious mental health issues are often forced to seek the intensive care they need in state institutions and foster care.

This civil rights complaint alleges continuing racial discrimination by employees of the Loleta Union School District including disparate treatment and harassment of Native American Students.

This complaint concerns the unlawful practice of thirteen Texas school districts forcing their most vulnerable students out of school through court procedures for truancy.

This complaint alleges Mira Loma High School discriminates against African American students through its racially hostile educational environment.